Posts tagged "abortion rights"

Wait one second, Fat-Shaming Trick-Or-Treat Lady! Before you claim the Worst House To Visit On Halloween Award, we have another contender! This past Halloween night, some trick-or-treaters in Albuquerque, New Mexico, discovered anti-abortion business card-sized literature amongst their bounty of Reese's peanut butter cups,…

Mostly when we discuss the "right to choose," we focus on the right to safe and legal access to abortion. We mostly focus abortion as the "choice" because a woman's right to make her own family planning decisions is constantly under attack from conservative politicians and the anti-abortion movement, both of which are pickled with the…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to update abortion laws in New York by removing restrictions on late term abortions (past 24 weeks), which have previously been available only if a woman's life is at risk. His proposal also includes allowing licensed practitioners to perform abortions, and changing the regulation of abortion to the state's public health law…

I'm warning you, it's hard not to read this story without getting enraged. Last week, a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher from New York went down to Germantown, Pennsylvania Maryland, to terminate her pregnancy at 33-weeks. She was married and fully enthusiastic about having a baby, according to the Washington Post, which says she had a Pinterest board…

Meet Julie Burkhart of the Trust Women Foundation who purchased the office owned by late abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, who was murdered by an anti-abortion extremist in 2009 in Wichita, Kansas. After raising nearly $1 million to reopen the clinic, it's set to begin serving women's reproductive health care needs again this spring. […

North Dakota's state Senate has approved a "fetal personhood" voter initiative which would allow citizens to vote on whether to amend the state constitution to read that life begins at conception, thereby criminalizing all abortion. It now must pass North Dakota's House of Representatives before it ends up on the 2014 ballot. [Feminist.org,…

Alabama has advanced an Orwellian-named bill called the "Women's Health & Safety Act" which seeks to heap more restrictions on abortion providers -- for instance, regulating the architectural infrastructure of the buildings -- in hopes it can close the state's five remaining clinics. [Think Progress, Blog.Al.com] According to a new Quinnipiac…

Women would be forced to have invasive, medically unnecessary transvaginal ultrasounds two hours before having an abortion if Republicans in Michigan get their way. A male Republican in Michigan's state House of Representatives introduced a bill earlier this week similar to the one Virginia eventually backed-off of last year after public outcry.

Lizz Winstead is the one of the founding writers of "The Daily Show" and a staunch and funny feminist. In this new video, Winstead teams up with the women's rights group UltraViolet to show you how much "choice" many women actually have. Did you know that there's only one abortion clinic in these four states:…

Today, January 22, marks the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's historic Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortions nationwide. Despite the fact that issues such gay rights held a spotlight in President Obama's inaugural address, a woman's right to choose is is still a highly divisive debate. TIME magazine's first issue of 2013 boldly stated…

I would truly love to be able to submit this piece with my name attached. However, as a young woman in modern Ireland, I feel it’s not possible due to the stigma and negativity attached to the subject matter. A few weeks ago, 31-year-old Savita Halappanavar, an Indian dentist that had settled in Ireland with…

Originally appeared on Role/Reboot. Republished here with permission. It’s over. For a while, I managed to hold it together. There was pie to eat and wine to drink and a couch to sink gratefully into. There were friends to laugh with and sigh with, dishes to clean up, and an 8am meeting o…

This piece was originally published at Patheos.com and is being reprinted with permission. The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later I have lost…

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign says it still supports the Tea Party's Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, who mind-bogglingly said that "God intended" pregnancies that result from rape. Mourdock is running a TV ad featuring Romney; the presidential campaign is apparently A-OK with continuing that endorsement. Keeeeeeep digging yourselves in a hole, boys. The electio…

"The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it i…

Wait. What? I must be reading this wrong. The “Women’s Health and Safety Act,” signed into law yesterday by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, and referred to by some as "the egg drop bill," defines pregnancy as beginning two weeks before conception, as it calculates the gestational age starting with the first day of the last menstrual…

Seriously, ladies, what is this fuckery? As we reported earlier, a Georgia bill criminalizing abortion after 20 weeks, with no exceptions for rape or incest, has passed Georgia's Senate, and is expected to be signed into law by Republican Governor Nathan Deal. This bill has affectionately been referred to as the "women a…

Meet Virginia State Senator Ryan McDougle! He is one of the state lawmakers who has come out to ardently support the state’s mandatory transvaginal ultrasound bill, almost as if he had no idea what was really entailed in women’s health decisions that are usually made by women. He is pictured above speaking with some of hi…

Taking a page out of those girls you went to high school with who can't stop smugly posting every detail of their perfect lives on Facebook, Lady Gaga shaded America's youngest grandma Taylor Swift just perfectly on Twitter yesterday. It all started when Jaime King's unborn child's godmother tweeted about Gaga, using the preferred…